, 1887-06-16
row TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.


for the Fourth has been abandoned.
The westbound tram was divided into
two sections at this point last evening.
The highest temperature recorded in
the signal Office yesterday was "a degrees.
The DeviI's AUCTION people spent a
pleasant day visiting points of interest in
the city and vicinity.
Two colored citizens occupied seats in
the jury box yesterday. They were VIM.
Maginnls and d. d. Moore.
Policeman Nolan is acting city mar
shal and CHEF during the the temporary
absence OF Marshal Schnitger.
A half-breed wolf chained to d post in
front of the railroad eating house attracts
the attention of Union Pacific passengers.
The 200 graders who recently left
Douglas are nov employed on the Bur-
lington 4 MISSOURI south of Chadron,
Neb.
The Swan Land and Cattle company's
Office will to-day be removed to the three
c~ommodious rooms over the Bicycle club
headquarters.
Maggie Foster and Mary Brooks were
each fined $40 in Judge Lees court
Yesterday. They had carminated the
village on the previous night.
There was an impromptu race at the
fair grounds Monday between Ellis
Cheyenne Girl and one of her daughters.
The colt was easily defeated.
Ed. Linn, the murderer Of VIM.
Parks, was safely lodged in the Albany
county Jail Tuesday night, he having
made no attempt to escape, as was re
ported.
The proprietors of the Mauvllle town
site evidently expect the place to blossom,
bloom and boom. They have set aside
blocks for a court house. high school and
other public buildings,
The audience at the opera house Tues
day evening represented 1854. In size it
has not been equaled in the past four
years, although the house has contained
better paying audiences.
There are 100 people now living In
Cheyenne who came here in 1867, the
year the town was founded. OF these
thirty four yesterday attended the funeral
of Mrs. James Whitney.
Final naturalization papers were yester-
day taken out by Robt. Grant, Walter
NJ. Moffat and Jno. McDougal, for,
merly of England, and Chas. Smith,
who halls from Alsace Lorraine.
There will be no sale of reserved seats
for an entertainment at the opera house
until the 22nd inst, when the box sheet
for Madame Janish's performance will
engross the attention OF theater goers.
Secretary Shannon has received a let
ter from the faculty of the New York
College of Veterinarians. offering a free
scholarship to any deserving young man
who might be recommended from Wyo-
ming.
The y. NJ. G. A. rooms will be for
mslly dedicated in about two weeks. b.
B. Chamberlain, president OF the organ-
ization in Colorado, will be present, and
leading citizens are expected to take part
in the ceremonies.
A Capitol avenue Celestial laundry
man was last evening heard to whistle
the sweet strains of hat melodious ball I'D
entitled wait Till the Clouds Roll BY"
The wall-eyed rice. eater probably wanted
to dry some linen.
A number of witnesses summoned
here from Lusk and vicinity are raising a
holy howl because they are compelled to
wait tor from ten DAYS to two weeks be-
fore the case TOR which they we're called
here comes to trial.
The round up of the North Albany
county district was camped near Douglas
yesterday. As nothing to the contrary
has been heard here, it is supposed that
the cowboys were not so troublesome as
had been expected.
The Denver and Omaha trains we're
each an hour late last evening, and the
Cheyenne Il Northern did not arrive un-
til three hours after the usual time of its
appearance. Bad connections and heavy
trains caused the delays.
One by one the girls who fed from
town when the marshal issued bis ukase
are returning, says the Laramie Boomer
an9, but it is noticeable that they are
somewhat more subdued in their behavior
than they formerly were.
Cards are out for the Buffalo, johnson
county, horse fair on the 9Th, 9th and 7th
Of July. The purses foot up a total Of
81, 200, consisting OF $500 for trotting
races, $500 for running horses. and 800
for cock fighting. This is the first
chicken main ever held in the territory.
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